tikva · cord, hope

What it means

tikva (תִּקְוָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cord, hope”.

Cord, rope. The same word means "hope" in other passages.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What one hopes for, and the reason to hope.
2. A thin cord of thread, like the scarlet one tied in Rahab's window.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• hope ×32
• cord ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Joshua×2
• Ruth×1
• Job×13
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×8
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Hosea×1
• Zechariah×1

• Joshua 2:18

  Look, when we come into the land, you shall tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all the house of your father.

• Joshua 2:21

  She said, “According to your words, so it is.” Then she sent them away, and they went. And she tied the cord of scarlet in the window.

• Ruth 1:12

  Return, my daughters, go, for I am too old to belong to a husband. Even if I said, ‘I have hope,’ even if I belonged to a husband tonight and also gave birth to sons,

• Job 4:6

  Is not your fear your confidence, your hope the integrity of your ways?

• Job 5:16

  So there is hope for the poor, and injustice shuts its mouth.

• Job 6:8

  Who would grant that my request might come, and that Eloah would grant my hope,

• Job 7:6

  My days are swifter than a shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.

• Job 8:13

  So are the paths of all who forget El, and the hope of the godless perishes,

• Job 11:18

  And you will trust, because there is hope; you will search about and lie down in safety.

• Job 11:20

  But the eyes of the wicked will be consumed, and refuge will perish from them, and their hope will be the breathing out of the soul.”

• Job 14:7

  For there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, it will renew itself again, and its shoots will not cease.

• Job 14:19

  water wears away stones; its floods sweep away the dust of the earth; and the hope of a mortal you make perish.

• Job 17:15

  where, then, is my hope? And my hope, who will catch sight of it?

• Job 19:10

  He tears me down on every side, and I am gone; and he uproots like a tree my hope.

• Job 27:8

  For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when Eloah draws out his life?

• Psalms 9:18

  For not forever will the needy be forgotten; the hope of the afflicted will not perish forever.

• Psalms 62:5

  Only before Elohim be silent, my soul, for from him comes my hope.

• Psalms 71:5

  For you are my hope, Adonai YHWH, my confidence from my youth.

• Proverbs 10:28

  The expectation of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

• Proverbs 11:7

  When a wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the expectation of vigor perishes.

• Proverbs 11:23

  The desire of the righteous is only good; the hope of the wicked is fury.

• Proverbs 19:18

  Correct your son, for there is hope, but do not set your soul on putting him to death.

• Proverbs 23:18

  for surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

• Proverbs 24:14

  so know wisdom to be for your soul; if you find it, then there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

• Proverbs 26:12

  Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a senseless man than for him.

• Proverbs 29:20

  Do you see a man hasty in his words? There is more hope for a senseless man than for him.

• Jeremiah 29:11

  For I know the plans that I am planning for you, declares YHWH, plans of peace and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

• Jeremiah 31:17

  And there is hope for your future, declares YHWH, and the children will return to their own territory.

• Lamentations 3:29

  Let him put his mouth in the dust; perhaps there is hope.

• Ezekiel 19:5

  And she saw that she had waited, that her hope was lost; and she took another of her cubs; she made him a young lion.

• Ezekiel 37:11

  And he said to me, “Son of man, these bones, they are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

• Hosea 2:15

  And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor as a door of hope; and she will respond there as in the days of her youth, and as on the day she came up from the land of Egypt.

• Zechariah 9:12

  Return to the stronghold, prisoners of hope; even today I declare that double I will restore to you.

And 1 more times.